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Chasing the Magellanic Clouds

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are icons of the southern skies, and are visible more-or-less year-round from down under.

At least as prominent is the beautiful complex of dark nebulosity that stretches from Crux through Centaurus, Norma, Ara and on into Scorpius. When this region rises, as the photo above shows, it is easy to imagine an ancient, cosmic, plesiosaur, long neck craning, in tantalising pursuit of the Magellanic Clouds.

New deepsky book from CUP — Deep sky author Wolfgang Steinicke's latest book, "Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters: From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue", has just been published by Cambridge University Press.

Superwind galaxy NGC 4666 — A remarkable galaxy with very vigorous star formation has been newly imaged on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

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